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Highpoint of 20th Century American Culture?

Started by Queequeg, October 13, 2013, 03:01:11 PM

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Greatest decade of American culture in the 20th Century?

00s
1 (2.9%)
10s
0 (0%)
20s
7 (20.6%)
30s
2 (5.9%)
40s
1 (2.9%)
50s
5 (14.7%)
60s
3 (8.8%)
70s
3 (8.8%)
80s/Jaron
5 (14.7%)
90s
7 (20.6%)

Total Members Voted: 33

Ideologue

Quote from: mongers on October 13, 2013, 06:28:41 PM
So for the first time the mass of the population having the ability to publish their wisdom on the internet counts for nothing ? :unsure:

Didn't really take off till the 00s.  Sure, Something Awful and X-Entertainment were great, but you're going to hang your whole decade on Zack Parsons reviewing porno movies?  Alright, it's feasible.  (And now that I consider it, the apex of the first wave of pop culture sites may still have been in the oughts.)
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Razgovory

I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

garbon

Quote from: Ideologue on October 13, 2013, 08:07:30 PM
Quote from: mongers on October 13, 2013, 06:28:41 PM
So for the first time the mass of the population having the ability to publish their wisdom on the internet counts for nothing ? :unsure:

Didn't really take off till the 00s.  Sure, Something Awful and X-Entertainment were great, but you're going to hang your whole decade on Zack Parsons reviewing porno movies?  Alright, it's feasible.  (And now that I consider it, the apex of the first wave of pop culture sites may still have been in the oughts.)

I doled out a lot of wisdom in AOL chatrooms. :angry:
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Neil

I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

CountDeMoney

Quote from: garbon on October 13, 2013, 05:31:18 PM
I picked the 90s. Only really had the 80s and 90s available unless I wanted to celebrate American culture as sexist and racist.

I can appreciate that, what with you being a double minority with cheese.  Although I would've been able to get you into all those swinging Rat Pack parties of 1956-1964 by introducing you as Sammy Davis Jr.  All you'd have to do would be to call everyone "babe" while looking at them omnidirectionally like a tree chameleon.

garbon

Quote from: CountDeMoney on October 13, 2013, 08:51:57 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 13, 2013, 05:31:18 PM
I picked the 90s. Only really had the 80s and 90s available unless I wanted to celebrate American culture as sexist and racist.

I can appreciate that, what with you being a double minority with cheese.  Although I would've been able to get you into all those swinging Rat Pack parties of 1956-1964 by introducing you as Sammy Davis Jr.  All you'd have to do would be to call everyone "babe" while looking at them omnidirectionally like a tree chameleon.

And then denying what I really was. Sounds fabulous. <_<

On the plus side, HIV/AIDS wasn't yet on the horizon. :shifty:
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Neil

Quote from: garbon on October 13, 2013, 09:04:55 PM
And then denying what I really was. Sounds fabulous. <_<
You'd probably have been better for it, you selfish fuck.
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

garbon

Quote from: Neil on October 13, 2013, 09:10:42 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 13, 2013, 09:04:55 PM
And then denying what I really was. Sounds fabulous. <_<
You'd probably have been better for it, you selfish fuck.

Probably not. Instead of one small bout of depression, I probably would have suffered it my whole life. Particularly given the state of pharmaceuticals back then.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

CountDeMoney

Quote from: garbon on October 13, 2013, 09:13:21 PM
Quote from: Neil on October 13, 2013, 09:10:42 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 13, 2013, 09:04:55 PM
And then denying what I really was. Sounds fabulous. <_<
You'd probably have been better for it, you selfish fuck.

Probably not. Instead of one small bout of depression, I probably would have suffered it my whole life. Particularly given the state of pharmaceuticals back then.

Oh, I don't know, Sammy seemed to do OK.

garbon

Quote from: CountDeMoney on October 13, 2013, 09:19:30 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 13, 2013, 09:13:21 PM
Quote from: Neil on October 13, 2013, 09:10:42 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 13, 2013, 09:04:55 PM
And then denying what I really was. Sounds fabulous. <_<
You'd probably have been better for it, you selfish fuck.

Probably not. Instead of one small bout of depression, I probably would have suffered it my whole life. Particularly given the state of pharmaceuticals back then.

Oh, I don't know, Sammy seemed to do OK.

I can't sing and I don't think I can act...well professionally that is.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Ideologue

To be clear, when I said it was better in the 1960s how people related to one another, I did mean "white people."
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Eddie Teach

90s. Partly for the reasons Brain described*, partly for television(which is still getting better and better as cable networks don't have to program for the lowest common denominator) and partly for Miramax.

*The best bands from the 70s and 80s were mostly British anyway.

To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

garbon

Quote from: Ideologue on October 13, 2013, 09:22:48 PM
To be clear, when I said it was better in the 1960s how people related to one another, I did mean "white people."

Clearly. After all, you are a Southerner.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

CountDeMoney

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 13, 2013, 09:25:34 PM
partly for television(which is still getting better and better as cable networks don't have to program for the lowest common denominator)

That's because you missed the '70s, when television sitcom writing was intelligent, and intended for intelligent people.

CountDeMoney

Quote from: garbon on October 13, 2013, 09:27:10 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on October 13, 2013, 09:22:48 PM
To be clear, when I said it was better in the 1960s how people related to one another, I did mean "white people."

Clearly. After all, you are a Southerner.

Ahhhh, magnolias.